In case you haven’t heard, Delicious is dead. I’ve moved all my bookmarks over to Pinboard, and I’ll go ahead and recommend you do too. It’s far more powerful and well worth the one time small fee for entry to the system. It automatically adds my Twitter favourites and Google Reader shares, so it’ll be far more relevant over time.
Finally put in some time parsing out those bookmarks I mentioned before into something Delicious can understand. Best of all, as I suspected, the tags and dates came through just fine. So head on over to my Delicious page to check them out.
Remember when I mentioned that Ma.gnolia died and I lost all my hosted bookmarks, but not to worry because they were all posted here automatically, albeit in a very non-retrievably-friendly way? Well, I've started back up at Delicious again and now I'm working on getting all my old bookmarks back on there. I've got them all collected in a single HTML document, but now I've got to put together some clever regex to strip them all out at put them in something Delicious will be able to import. I've skimmed the file and it shouldn't be too hard, but I don't know if the tags will survive the import. Going in the opposite direction, I see Delicious will include tags as a comma-separated string in a TAGS attribute when doing an export, so I've got a place to start anyway. Wish me luck!
Just discovered Ma.gnolia.com had a catastrophic failure back in February and they lost *all* their data. I guess I didn’t pick the best time to switch from Del.icio.us.
At least the good news is it’s all on here thanks to the weekly linklog postings. They’re just not organized in a very nice way.
So is it time to go back to del.icio.us? Where are the Microsoft/Yahoo rumours at these days? Is there a third player in the game?